Holy Brick Wall Batman!

[Hivetyrant]

NOT True.

My 5 Shamans killed several bosses in northrend instances on the way to 80, even full cleared Gundrak at 75.

It's just a lot easier with a real tank, and optional healer (as long as someone is healing).

It's true, especially if they are geared.

I hoped into a group last week that had 4 shamans (on my priest as heals)
I was ready to leave when the player said "Keep me up and watch this!"

We cleared Heroic Gun Drak in record time, shaman teams are OP

[Siaea]

I do have cold weather flying. Also, I'm running 5 shaman again mainly for PvP at 80, but I guess I'll have to run a tank like I did with my Horde team. I suppose I can faction transfer my DK.

[Lyonheart]

I do have cold weather flying. Also, I'm running 5 shaman again mainly for PvP at 80, but I guess I'll have to run a tank like I did with my Horde team. I suppose I can faction transfer my DK.

Faction transfers are broke atm. They can happen instantly or take a day or more. I have transfered several of my toons to horde in the past few weeks. Some went through in minutes and 4 have taken a few days. There is a 70+ page forum thread in the CS support forums about it.

[Gramzngunz]

I remember trucking right along and then I hit Northrend too. I won't lie. The grind from 70-80 was VERY painful and slow for me, but oh the fun I've had at 80...

[Malekyth]

Northrend kicks ass. There are collection quests in all zones, but only a couple (Zul'Drak, Grizzly Hills) are unusually bad for a boxer, and I wouldn't blame you if you didn't set foot in either. Dragonblight, Scholozar Basin, Icecrown and Storm Peaks are awesome questing zones once you can fly. I just got my third team to 80, and I hit the cap before I even got out of Dragonblight (with two heirlooms each and doing the daily dungeon every day) so I don't believe all the pain that some people have with the continent.

[Fursphere]

"if they are geared"

Oh, you mean rolling i200 content w/ 232s? /facepalm

[Ughmahedhurtz]

"if they are geared"

Oh, you mean rolling i200 content w/ 232s? /facepalm

This.

Yes, it is _possible_ to do 5-shaman groups in Northrend dungeons.

BUT.

To do it, you'll have to bring the best possible gear AND macros/pets/consumables/etc. that set you up specifically for that (no tank) situation.

With bosses that are pure ezmode tank n spank, I could see you struggling through it once you got past the gear/level check. For bosses like Ingvar the Plunderer, I just can't see how you would successfully get through that fight as a 5-DPS group at level without spending money on shadow resist pots, raid-level consumables, twink-ish enchants on all your gear, Best-In-Slot gear for your level, etc. And it would seem to me to be paradoxical that you'd need BiS gear to defeat the bosses that give you the BiS gear.

I'd love to be proven wrong.

[Hivetyrant]

"if they are geared"

Oh, you mean rolling i200 content w/ 232s? /facepalm

Yes, that's exactly what I meant, hence why I said it /facepalm

[Ualaa]

Sometime in early BC, they reduced the experience needed per level for 1st to 60th, by 30%. In early WotLK, they did the same for BC content.

Effectively, 1st to 70th only requires 70% as much experience as it did when that was current content.

Add to this two 10% heirloom items, which stack (0.90 x 0.90 = 0.81 = 19%) for a 49% reduction in required experience per level for 1st to 70th.

Without heirlooms and the experience reductions, each level from 1st to 70th would have taken nearly twice as long. If a given quest was giving a half a bubble, it would have given a quarter of a bubble without heirlooms when that was the current content.

[Fursphere]

No, you inserted the word "especially" - implying that it can be done without over gearing the content.